On a clear day, you can see for miles. And with the right cosmic lens, you can see for billions of light-years. That's how NASA and the ESA's Hubble space telescope delivered an image of the most...
The US space agency has successfully put a new probe in orbit around Jupiter. The Juno satellite, which left Earth five years ago, had to fire a rocket engine to slow its approach to the planet and...
The solar-powered aeroplane, Solar Impulse, has completed a three-day flight over the Pacific Ocean. It flew over San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday evening as it prepared to land in...
Leading garden retailer Suttons Seeds has examined the importance of bee-friendly gardening in their latest visual. From pollenating flowers to creating honey, bees play a vital yet often overlooked...
Millions of people across Indonesia and the Pacific have experienced a total solar eclipse, with parts of the region falling into complete darkness. The eclipse began at 06:19 local time (23:19 GMT...
Europe has begun to roll out a data superhighway in orbit above the Earth. The first node in the network is a telecommunications satellite that has just launched from Kazakhstan. It will use a laser...
Astronomers have spotted two huge waves of gas being "burped" by the black hole at the heart of a nearby galaxy. The swathes of hot gas, detected in X-ray images from Nasa's Chandra space telescope,...
Up to three-quarters of fish sampled from the River Thames have been found to have plastic fibres in their gut.The Royal Holloway study was small and looked at just two species - but it highlights,...
The vast majority of carbon credits generated by Russia and Ukraine did not represent cuts in emissions, according to a new study. The authors say that offsets created under a UN scheme...
A signal received from the New Horizons spacecraft shows that it survived its historic encounter with Pluto.Data in its first call home since Tuesday's flyby suggest the spacecraft experienced no...
Solar Impulse, the aeroplane that is powered only by the sun, has landed in Hawaii after making a historic 7,200km flight across the Pacific from Japan. Pilot Andre Borschberg brought the vehicle...
The biggest commercial rocket campaign in history has been announced by OneWeb.The British Channel Islands-registered company has acquired more than 60 launchers to help put up its proposed satellite...
